The Baptizing of my Camera in the Ocean!!!

I finally watched the video today of my major OOPS of "baptizing" my camera in the ocean while at Crop Tropical in Cancun!!!  I was all alone in the house today when I found it and was seriously splitting a gut laughing at the video (how can you tell time has already healed!!!) and simply had to call Christy!!  The really funny thing is Christy always jokes at how she needs to "take care of me" as I seem to land myself in such crazy predicaments and this one is no exception!!  She accepted that part of her role as "Featured Instructor" was to save me from myself at times!!!  And for the most part she did!!!!

I'll figure out how to post the actual video someday, but meanwhile, these photos are actual stills taken from the video!!  

So as you can see in the first shot, we are simply walking along the beach... not IN the water!!!  Next, I decide to splash a little water at Christy firmly placing all my weight on my leg with my bad knee (I have a detached cruciate ligament from a Volleyball injury in my 20s).  Note to self:  make doctor's appt. to FINALLY have this fixed!!!

Unbeknownst to me... a forceful wave was coming towards us and hit me popping my knee out of my socket.  And YES it hurt!!!  Now this hasn't actually happened for a few years since I've been working out and doing weights regularly so it really took me by surprise!!  

At this point, experience kicks in and I know to not fight my knee and just let it collapse so that it pops back in.  And yes, I usually plop very ungraciously to the floor when this happens creating quite the scene or as my good friend Christine Collier would say, "not just a scene baby... a MUSICAL"!!!  So even though my hand in the air is likely due to my flailing... I'd like Christy to think I was signaling for HELP from her!!  After all, that is why I hired her (okay that and her abundant, amazing, over-the-top creative talent!!)

And what does Christy do???  She laughs!!!!!  And not just a little giggle!!  It is full throttle, head thrown back, hysterical laughter!!!!  Thank goodness I have the evidence on video!!!  Oh... and it took awhile for me to identify the body part just slightly evident poking out of the water...  my foot!!  Yes, folks, I was pretty much upside down completely submerged with my camera in water that didn't even reach as high as Christy's knees!!!

The next few seconds of video is pretty all over the place... mostly sand and water shots as Brad came running towards me, but you hear everything!!  He's going "Oh Al, oh Al, Al, Al" and I'm going "Oh... so not okay, so not okay... my knee popped out on me... crap... shoot!!"  And finally you see me and my Nikon D80 digital SLR camera and 18-200mm lens all drenched with salt water, sand and micro sea shells!!

And yes, Christy took a photo... a close-up of the seashells plastered on my wet face.  And you know what?  I'm so glad she did and am very anxious to see it!!!!  The true heart of a scrapper and friend!!

So... you too can join in the "misadventures" of Allison by applying to be an instructor on my next Crop and Cruise in November!!!!  Just think of all the potential while sailing on a cruise ship through the Caribbean!!!  Seriously!!!  We are still accepting applications up until March 15!!  Check out the details HERE!!

Note to self:  add in "take photos of Allison's crazy antics" to the job description for instructors!